how to get selection from multiple select list?

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I have a multiple select list (<select> with multiple='multiple') in one of my view templates.

I can select several items from the list - items with values: 3,4,5.

I can see, using Tamper Data in Firefox, that the selection is being returned. (POSTDATA=danceselect=3&danceselect=4&danceselect=5&commit=Doit)

'danceselect' is the name of listbox.

params['danceselect') contains only one item ('3' in this case)

QUESTION: how do I get all of the items selected? Nothing fancy here - I need the selected items to get info from the DB.

What have I missed?

Thanks,

Warren

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I have a multiple select list (<select> with multiple='multiple') in one of my view templates.

I can select several items from the list - items with values: 3,4,5.

I can see, using Tamper Data in Firefox, that the selection is being returned. (POSTDATA=danceselect=3&danceselect=4&danceselect=5&commit=Doit)

'danceselect' is the name of listbox.

params['danceselect') contains only one item ('3' in this case)

QUESTION: how do I get all of the items selected? Nothing fancy here - I need the selected items to get info from the DB.

What have I missed?

Change the name of your select to "danceselect"... that is, make sure the HTML output looks like this:

<select name="danceselect"....> ....

-philip

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thank you very much - I knew it had to be something pretty basic